Name: 動物產品對腦部健康並非必要 (Animal Products NOT Essential for Brain Health)
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A headline circulating around says that eggs, meat and dairy

So what does this mean for vegetarians and vegans?

And on the sliding scale of vegetarianism,

means I eat eggs and dairy, but no other animal products.

you have vegans who don't eat any animal products at all.

It's tricky to stay healthy as a vegetarian or a vegan,

because you've always got to watch what you're eating

sources for everything you'd normally get from an animal.

Except a new study from the University of Montreal

a nutrient only found in meat, eggs and dairy

It is an amino acid that we've always considered an essential

It's one of the 20 most common amino acids on earth.

Amino acids are used to make the proteins

They're responsible for strength, repair and rebuilding

The asparagine is mostly involved with the development

Our liver actually makes a lot of it out of other amino acids

automatically, enough to provide for our whole body.

So here's where the study's framing and headline sort of

fall apart, compared to the actual content.

Even though just about all of us make enough asparagine

automatically, there is a small percentage

of the population with a genetic defect that

causes them to not make as much as everyone else, which

can lead to severe intellectual disability

The headline seems to imply that if you have this defect,

So a vegan or vegetarian diet could be dangerous.

Well, so far only nine children around the world

boost the amount in their body and get more of it

across the blood brain barrier, which could counteract

So it seems like being vegan would only be dangerous

See while the headline calls out meat, eggs and dairy,

remember that asparagine is one of the most common amino acids

It's also in whole grains, legumes, soy, basically

seeing this story floating around, and it got you nervous.

I cannot speak for how your brain was before.

they think your brain is crazy and the only cure is bacon.

And I don't think there's any research that

What food myths are floating around that drive you nuts?

Is there anything you wanted to know about food that you'd

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